Two Diamonds: ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT 1GB CrossFire Review. Page 13

We have last discussed the performance of multi-processor graphics solutions in the era of previous generation GPUs, such as Radeon X1000 and GeForce 7. Today we are going to return to this topic and cover it on a completely new level with the unique Diamond Multimedia graphics card: ATI Radeon HD 2900 XT.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl

The game doesn’t support FSAA when you enable the dynamic lighting model, but loses much of its visual appeal with the static model. This is the reason why we benchmarked the cards in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. using anisotropic filtering only.

The problem with the performance of the Radeon HD 2900 series in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. we noticed before still persists. Although the use of CrossFire mode brings about a considerable performance gain, the minimum of speed remains very low. The average frame rate is far from ideal, either, being higher than 40fps in 1600x1200 only.

This is one of the few cases when investing into two Radeon HD 2900 XT is not as rewarding as purchasing a single Nvidia GeForce 8800 Ultra.